Re: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm -- October 2010
i am really excited about this new expansion. my buddy who has been beta testing this game says it is really going to appeal to the veteran players of wow most. they are bringing back so many things from vanilla. great new guild achievement, amazing new talent tree's, all the classes wich where previously face roll are getting redone so they become challenging again, best examples of this are dk's hunters and pally's. hunter gaining focus, pallys getting combo points called holy power and dk's have there runes chopped down. they are bringing out heroic versions of brd and more, there will be new raids being brought back in from vanilla like molten core and so on. i enjoyed cataclysm but the game had become way to easy, this game is about to become challenging again and i cannot wait. they even got rid of all the ports in the main cities. my guild mate has told me its no longer just a tank and spank game, tanks now need to cc much more then ever before and not just hold threat and take a beating, some heroic 5 mans take 2 tanks 2 dps and 1 healer. looks like blizzard has learned quite alot from the mistakes they have made in wrath of the litch king and many people are excited. with 12 million active subscriptions to wow they dont need to cool it at all, keep releasing the quality content and people will be happy, they cant just stop working on wow and leave us with the same content or they will loose everyone, and im quite sure wow is activion/blizzards main source of income right now so i hope they keep up the good work. p.s. really excited for blizzcon im getting a beta key from a friend attending the event.
harper to answer your question, they are moving all accounts over to cataclysm world ie if you only have tbc you will still get cataclysm talent trees and have acess to the new azeroth. what you miss out on is the new bg's the new raid content, new dungeons, and you of course level cap at 70.
to answer nickedit this will not be the last world of warcraft expansion, there is suppose to be a 4th according to the story and what blizzard has planned and it will be the 4th and final expansion, also expect it to be the biggest. we do not know if they will make a warcraft 4 or go onto making another mmo, but according to the lore there is a story available for a 4th expansion. many of you may say but world of warcraft has such a dated engine, they are actually updating the engine for this new expansion and it has support for direct x11, and rummors buzzing around about tessellation support. blizzard is upping there game and we all love it.
the sotry for the expansion after cataclysm is suppose to be about the titans and the makers. they consistently talk about these guys in ever expansion and ulduar brought out a whole bunch more in wotlk, i can only imagine what else will come in cataclysm with deathwing coming into the scene again who has been around since the age of the titans. most of this is speculation but the story is written. the cata script has been written now for over 8 year.
